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Author Archives: SJ Cooper-Knock
Interim notes on the South African local elections
Our Co-editor SJ Cooper-Knock shared some early thoughts on the local election results in South Africa. This post was written on Saturday morning, more analysis will follow after the final election results are announced.
Exclusive: Transcript of Head to Head with Odinga
Democracy in Africa’s very own Nic Cheeseman was part of the panel that interviewed the former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, for Al Jazeera’s flagship political discussion programme, ‘Head to Head’, at the Oxford Union on 15 April 2016. Mr Odinga, currently the country’s most high profile opposition leader, was Prime Minister under the power sharing […]
#GambiaRising: Big protests rock the small nation
Our co-editor, SJ Cooper-Knock, takes a look at the protests erupting in the Gambia over the past few weeks. Could this be the beginning of the end for President Yahya Jammeh?
Posted in Gambia
Tagged African Democracy, democracy in africa, SJ Cooper-Knock, the Gambia
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Noor Nieftagodien on #FeesMustFall
Prof Noor Nieftagodien provides fantastic historical context to the #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa. This talk was part of a digital panel on activism and academia for the Decolonizing the Academy Conference at the University of Edinburgh. Noor is Associate Professor at the History Research Group at the University of Witwatersrand.
Posted in Sound Ideas
Tagged Academia and ACtivism, Noor Nieftagodien, University of Witwatersrand
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Camalita Naicker on Activism and the Academy
Camalita Naicker speaks to us about student activism at the University-Currently-Known-As Rhodes University as part of the Centre of African Studies’ conference on Decolonizing the Academy, at the University of Edinburgh. Camalita is a PhD candidate at UHURU.
Decolonizing the Academy: A digital panel
This week, the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies is hosting the ‘Decolonizing the Academy’ conference. As part of this conference we are running a digital panel on activism and the academy. We hope that this new approach to panel presentations can provide a model for more accessible ways of sharing and debating knowledge.
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Rwanda: Liberation by numbers?
Our co-editor, SJ Cooper-Knock takes a look at Rwanda, which is often praised for leading the way on women’s representation in parliament. What do the country’s impressive statistics tell us about the life choices and life chances of women in politics, and beyond? This thought piece was penned as part of series on parliamentary politics for the […]
Posted in Gender and Politics series, Rwanda, Rwanda: twenty year commemoration
Tagged Gender, quota, Rwanda, SJ Cooper-Knock, women
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The Successes and Failures of Economic Reform in Africa
Zainab Usman shares with us her new paper on political settlements in Nigeria. Zainab is a doctoral candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford. Her research assesses the oil economy, economic reform and political institutions in Nigeria since the transition to democracy in 1999. Zainab is also the co-convener of the Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN). She tweets […]
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Tagged Commodities, nigeria, oil, Political Settlement, Telecommunications, Zainab Usman
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#RhodesMustFall: Tadiwanashe Madenga
At the ASAUK earlier this month, the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh hosted a series of panels on Decolonising the Academy. Tadiwanashe Madenga joined the panel digitally to present: ‘ #RhodesMustFallOxford: Decolonization and the Myth of Western Neutrality at the University of Oxford’.